Snow-excluding arctic.



No. 642,8I0. Patented Feb. 6, |900. W. N. BUTTON.

SNDW EXCLUDING ARCTIC.

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excluding gnssets with the quarters and ex- UNiTn STATES l ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM N. BUTTON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGN TO THE JOSEPH BANIGAN RUBBER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SNOW-EXCLUDING ARCTIC. l.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,810, dated February 6, 1900.

Application tied naar Aso, 1899.

Beit known that LWILLIAM N. BUTToN, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Snow-Excluding Arctics; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Rubber overshoes extending above the instep having the quarters extending over the vamp and secured together by a suitable fastening device above the instep are known in the art as arctic overshoes. Some of these are provided with gussets,by which the spaces between the vamp and the quarters are closed, so as to prevent the entrance of snow. These are known in the art as snow-excluders and as snow-excluding arctics. As heretofore constructed the vamp of these snowexcluding arctcs was provided with laterally-extending flaps folded to form gussets. The outer edges of these iaps were secured by cementation to the forward ends of the quarters. There are several objections to this method of construction, one of which is that to secure a strong union between the extension-flaps of the vamp with the counters the cementation must be of considerable width and limits the extension of the opening through which the shoe-clad foot is inserted. Another objection is that the cemented joint is not as strong as is desirable, and a further objection is that the raw edges of the extended iiap andthe counters are exposed to wear and liable to fray and ravel out, whereby the appearance of the shoe is injured.

One object of the invention is to secure a wider opening for the insertion of the shoeclad foot into the snow-excluding arctic.

Another object of the invention is to secure greater strength at the junction of the snowpose no raw edges of the cloth.

The invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction by which the cloth of the counters is extended to form the gusset and connected with the vamp near the gutter or fold of the snow-excluding gusset, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure lis a side view of a snow-excludin g Serial No. 711,070. (No model.)

arctic, the gusset formed by the extension of the counters being shown in broken lines. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, showing the extensions of the counters joined tothe vamp near the fold or gutter. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the counters7 showing the gussets extending beyond the ends and made in one piece with the same.

In the drawings, d indicates the foxing of the lower part of the shoe. This part may be made in the usual manner, and its construction forms no part of my present invention.

b indicates the vamp of the snow-excluding arctic overshoe; c, the quarters; c', the extensions of the quarters,which when secured to the vamp form the gussets; c2, the folded forward edges of the quarters, and d d the fastening devices by which the quarters are secured over the vamp above the instep.

In constructing the uppers of the snow-excluding arctic I cut the cloth formingl the outer surface of the quarters with the extensions c in one piece, preferably wideenough to allow the upper edge to be turned over and cemented to form the edge binding and prevent raveling of the cloth, as is indicated in broken lines in Fig. 3. The inner surface of the cloth is, as usual, faced with rubber. The usual strengthening-pieces-such as the pockets, the quarter-stays, and the bucklestays-are secured to the quarters. The extensions c' c are folded onvthe ends of the quarters, and the edges c3 cB are secured to corresponding edges on the vamp b, preferably on one side of the line c4 of the gutter, in the usual manner by a joining-strip. As shown in the drawings, the vamp b is provided with the extensions b b', and these are united with the edges c3 c3 of the quarters at a point beyond the fold or gutter c4; but these joints of the quarters to the vamp may be made at the line c4 of the gutter or on either side thereof. By this construction the opening into the snow-excluding arctic overshoe for the admission of the shoe-clad foot is considerably larger than it was in the snowexcluding arctic of the same number or size in which the extensions c c of the gutters or folds were secured to the quarters by cementation, because the cementation of the gussets on the quarters requires a strip of cementation on the forward end of the quarters, thereby placing the hinge-line about three-quarters of an inch back of the front edge of the two quarters and reducing the length of the upper edge of the material inclosing the expanded opening by about three inches. larged opening adds materially to the convenience in the use of the overshoes.

The folding over of the counter at its for ward edge secures a slightly-cushioned rounded edge, and when the counters are secured over the instep and fastened firmer bearings of the counters on the vamp are secured along the edges c2 c2 than when these ends of the counters are formed of separate pieces cemented together along the front edges of the counters for a distance of nearly an inch, permitting the entrance of fine snow between the folded gussets.

I am aware that arctic overslioes have been made in which the Vamp and the quarters were formed in one piece. In this construction the quarters were jointed at the rear of the shoe, exposing the joint and making the rear, which is exposed to the greatest strain in putting on or taking of the shoe, the weakest part. I do not claim this construction and have placed the joints inmy improved snow-excluding arctics near the gutter of the gussets, where they are concealed and exposed to the least strain and wear.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In snow-excluding arctics this en-- 1. In a snow-excludingarctic overshoe, the combination with the vamp of the shoe and extensions on the vamp forming parts of the gussets, of quarters and extensions formed integral with the quarters forming the other parts of the gussets; whereby the extensions of the vamp and quarters may be secured near the gutters of the gussets and a larger entrance for the shoe-clad foot secured, as described.

2. A snow-excluding arctic overshoe, having the quarters and parts of the gussets connecting the quarters with the Vamp formed in one piece Without joint or seam, whereby the hinge-lines of the gussets are located on the extreme forward ends of the quarters and the expansible opening is enlarged, as described.

3. A snow excluding arctic overshoe in which the cloth forming the outer surface of the vamp extends in one piece over the vamp and over parts of the gussets and the cloth forming the outer surface of the quarters extends in one piece over the quarters and the parts of the gussets connected with the quarters, as a new article of 1nanufacture,where by the vamp and the quarters may be jointed at the gutters of the gussets, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM N. BUTTON. Witnesses:

J. A. MILLER, Jr., B. M. SIMMs. 

